What make of RotorBlades are these?
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Harry_S.
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Dennis, my eyes are not as good as they were about 60 yrs. ago but, I would say those blades are the type that were assembled from the Rotordyne Kit.
Solid flush head rivets on top and the bucked heads on the bottom skin.
I assembled several of these kits and I thought them to be very good blades.
That's my guess.
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Solid flush head rivets on top and the bucked heads on the bottom skin.
I assembled several of these kits and I thought them to be very good blades.
That's my guess.
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Looks like rotor hawks
Passin' Thru
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That's my take on it also. BUT the early Rotordyne kit blades were so much like them, it's hard to say who copied who!
BTW Dennis, that's a nice looking KB-2! More photos please?
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Thanks, You'll be seeing it on EBay tonight!!
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Dennis
Have you ever heard of Ferd Tele enterprise of Rolla Mo.
they sold a blade kit back in the late 80s they look just like them. with the protruding rivets. Specs were 7 in chord Clark Y upper skin .032 lower skin .050
10 ft length main spar 6061 T6 weight 16.5 lbs per blade without blocks and bolts.
The kit sold for $395.00
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Dennis
Have you ever heard of Ferd Tele enterprise of Rolla Mo.
they sold a blade kit back in the late 80s they look just like them. with the protruding rivets. Specs were 7 in chord Clark Y upper skin .032 lower skin .050
10 ft length main spar 6061 T6 weight 16.5 lbs per blade without blocks and bolts.
The kit sold for $395.00
Doug S
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I really can't recall but I think the Rotordyne kit was the first to come out with the one piece skins. Bensen had the segmented skin.
Chuck B ?!
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DennisFetters
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Yes Doug, I built a few sets of those blades. Only I bonded the skins and used less rivets, and countersunk the top and the bottom of the rivet. Turned out to be a good blade.
These are not them. These are Rotor-Hawk blades for sure, I found some others here locally today to compare with.
